These 'fire tornadoes' are from 2024 Wyoming blaze, not LA fires | Fact check
The video shows a pair of fire whirls from the Remington Fire, which began in August 2024 and burned through parts of Wyoming ...
Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?
Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the ...
Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A fire lab shows how they work
The National Weather Service's warning about the “particularly dangerous situation” in which any new fire could explode in ...
WATCH: Extremely dangerous fire devil forms as winds whip up Palisades blaze
When a wildfire intensely heats air close to the ground, it can rise rapidly and start to spin into a narrow vortex. As more ...
Look twice before sharing those viral LA fire videos. Many aren't real
The video wasn't captured during the January 2025 fires in Los Angeles. It dates back to December 2017 when a wildfire spread ...
How wildfires can create fire tornadoes
Wildfires produce a lot of heat, which causes the air above them to rise rapidly. As this hot air moves upward, cooler air ...
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Was that a fire tornado swirling amid the flames in Pacific Palisades?
The blaze looks similar to a twister. But Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, told USA TODAY that it instead appears to be an example of a fire whirl, which is “more akin to a dust devil ...
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Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A Mass. fire lab shows how they work
Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t always agree on what’s what.
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Fire tornadoes pose a threat in California. A pyrotechnics lab shows how they work
A look at fire tornadoes: Fire whirl, fire devil, fire tornado or even firenado — scientists, firefighters and regular folks use multiple terms to describe similar phenomena, and they don’t al ...